no longer a concert virgin.

so i went to my first concert

so.. switchfoot is like love now. i think the best concert ever would be Runkidrun, Stellar Kart, and Switchfood. I'd pee myself with excitement and probibly kill anyone for the tickets. (sorry... but its true. lol) But i had a blast, really glad my first concert was a christian one. I don't really think to many secular bands are that exciting. the only ones id go to for concerts are country, i dont think they would be as stimulating(lol) as this was. It was an amazing good time. I hope i get to go to more.... with some bands that i know... not ones that my mom says hey meg your going. well yeah there were lots of peeps i knew there, that was cool too. I'm glad everything just went solidly well. well thats my two cents.

peace

jlyasdi

The reasons why.

So WOW! sunday. We did the reasons why we WORHSIP. Aron preached, always cool. And we had an extended worship. So wow, the youth group took off. not to give us all the credit, but i really couldn't see anyone else but us. We just got really into it. It was amazing to part of the youth group at that time, just praising the Lord our Father with that much passion. I could feel it flowing through us, we feed of each others excitment so much. Our group has so much love and excitment for our Lord, we just don't always know how to show it. Well we found a way. It was amazing to get so many comments after services saying how many people we almost or did bring to tears, and to hear how amazed the were with us. But to clarify, It wasn't us, it was the holy spirit within us moving us. And we moved as one (go jayson french! :) ) It was amazing to be part of that, and i think now that we have opened up we will be more ourselves when we worship. No offence church, but sometimes we don't feel welcome. But we now know we are and boy are we excited! I pray for more oppertunities to express ourselfs and to touch more people. Some times it just takes one person to change the face of anyone or anything.

Florida

So i went to Florida with my best friend Kory! I spent a week away from mine, to be with hers. But it was a BLAST! We hit up Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios, Disney's Magic Kingdom, and Wet n' Wild water park. So any way. Know me, I have this TERRIBLE fear if heights, like you don't even understand. So naturally I don't like rides that deiced to be cool and have little drops and such things. So we are at Islands of Adventure.... I've already evaded a couple rides for they're drops. (except the Spiderman ride, but that was a 3-d non-real drop, i still closed my eyes.) Me and little Emma(like 7-8 i think she was, yeah that's how cool i am.) have become best friends, because all we do is sit and wait for people to be done riding. We get to the Jurassic park, area of the park. So there is this ride, with this hill, and I said no. Then the first group went on, and managed to convince me(and Emma) that i should go on. So i caved, besides Kory and Cameron would be sitting on either side of me. So its Uncle Curt, Emma, Aunt Dee in the front row, then behind them is Kory, me, Cameron. I'm shaking uncontrollably and Emma is already in the middle of a nervous breakdown (yeah we're fun people to ride with) So Emma's crying before the ride starts, about 2 minutes in (after the first dinosaur pops out at you) i join her. Then (yeah this is my favorite part! ha- sarcasm) We see the Big T-Rex and the start of the hill is like a car in front of us, and the ride stops! So now I'm freaking out as bad as Emma is. Uncle Curt turns to see whats up with our row and Kory has her arm wrapped around me and I'm shaking and tears a pouring down my face. He kinda gives me a "WOW" look, not a wow like your lame and pathetic look, but like a wow this is bad kinda look. Then one of the kids on the other side of Aunt Dee asks "is this supposed to happen?" I know its not, but having Emma right there buried into his wife, Uncle Curt answers, "Oh yeah." Needless to say, the ride restarted, I'm even more scared then before, cause i know its coming. So I'm buried into Kory like Emma is into Aunt Dee. But many a props were given to me for completing it. And i went on to ride many more rides who decided to be cool. I didn't loose my fear, ha are you kidding me! but i learned to push it aside if the right people are around. So went on a whole bunch of crazy rides. I seemed to be the only person who like the Disney Park, it was rainy, no where to sit, no meal deals like universal. But nothing could ever kill Disney for me. So i seemed to be the only one who thoroughly enjoyed it, but hey i grew up disney, kory crew up cartoons and comics(her dad) but i got my picture with sleeping beauty, Kory with Belle, and Emma with Cinderlla.

The only day we had sun, was the day we decieded to relax and stay home. So we spent the whole day in the club house pool. And boy did i have tan lines! but it was fun, we played keep away, first me against the boys, actuly it was more like dodge ball. Then the adults came in and it was oldies against youngins in a rather intense game of keep away, and of corse, I some how managed to get stuck blocking the tallest/biggest one, unlce curt. But i got him a couple times.

I'm so glad i went. It was nice to feel apart of they're family and to act like a kid again. well thats all for this blog. PEACE!

JLYASDI